Pea and bean harvesting and threshing machine.



No. 856,929. ''NCED JUNE 1l, 1907V E. TEAR? @L B, TEAR?, EBA AND BEAN HARVESTNG AND THRESHNG MAGHFNH APPLICATION FILED 0mm, 1905.

Z SHEETS-SHEET l PATENTED JUNE 1l, 1907.

E. THARP n B. THARP, Jn. PEA AND BEAN HARVBSTING AND THRESHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 00T.24, 1905.

Muziek Thai/72j.'

' Unirse sfrarns PATENT OFFICE.

litNESTTHARP. OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, AND BENAIAH THARP, JR., OF

HARRINGTON, DELAWARE.

- 'PEA AND BEN HARVESTING: AND THRESHIING MACHINE.

i specification, or Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

Application led October 24,1905. Serial No. 284.237.

1,25 whom it may concern: Be it known that we, ERNEST THARPand llinivArAH THARP, Jr., citizens of the United States, .residing at Norfolk, Virginia, and iilarrington, Delaware, respectively, in the Lcounties of Norfolk and Kent, respectively,

and States of Virginia and Delaware, respectively, have invented new and useful Im- ',provemen'ts in Pea and Bean Harvesting and i 5 ."hreshing Machines, of which the following is I a specification.

rihis invention relates to ca and bean harvesting and threshing mac ines, and has for its objects to produce a comparatively' i5 simple, inexpensive device of this character vwhereby the harvesting and/threshing operations .will be effectually erforined, one wherein the vines will upon t eir passage into the machine, be subjected to a thorough beating or threshing .action forfreeing the peas or beans therefrom, one in which the vines'and other refuse will be discharged in rear of the machine. and one wherein the seed ina cleansed condition will be discharged into e5; sacks or other suitable receptacles.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character embodying a 'vine-collecting member whereby the vines will be properly directed to the threshing 3o mechanism, one wherein the entrance of brieis or other heavy materials into the machine is largely obviated, and one whereby the vines will be severed upon passing into the machine.

With these and other objects in view, the .invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts more hereinafter described. ln the accompanying drawings: Figure l 4o. is a side elevation of a machine embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view looking fronti the other side. Fig. 3 is a top plan 'view ofthe niachine partly in section. Fi 4 .is a vertical longitudinal section taken on thc 45 line 4 4 of Fig. Figl 5 is a Iwrspcctivo view ofI the vine collecting member.

Fig. 5. Fig. 6 is a detail erspectivc view showing a slightly modified form of collecting 5o ,member l Referring to the drawings, l designates the 'frame or casing of the machine which has an axle 2' equipped with transporting Wheels 3,

i Fig. 5" is a detail section taken on the line 5--5 of casing 4, while pivoted at the front of the m a.-

chine on a horizontal pintle or axle 5 is a substantially U-shaped draft member or frame 6 to which is connected the forwardly project'- ing tongueor pole 7 and the side portions or arms of which extend rearwardly along the sides of the casing 1 'and areiconnected at their rear ends by a vertical U-shaped bail 8 engaged with an operating lever 9 pivoted on the casing 1 in. convenient reach of the seat 1.0 and havinga spring actuated awl`11 designed vfor engagement with a rac 12 to normally hold the lever against movement. Journaled in the drum or casing LLisa rotary member or cylinder 13 provided with radial beating members or ar/mslfi terminating at their outer ends in flattened diamond-shaped heads 15, there being loose upon the cylinder shaft 16, which projects upon one side of the casing, a sprocket pinion 17 connected by a ,sprocket chain 18 with a driving gear 19 fixed on the shaft 2,while carried by the hub of the pinion 17 is a clutch member 20 adapted for engagement with a corresponding clutch 21 fixed on the shaft 16to connect the sprocket therewith for operating the cylinder 13. The clutch member 20 is adapted for movement into and out of clutching engagement with the clutch 21 by means of a lever 22 adapted for operation from the seat 10.

Sustained `at 4the front of the machine beneath the drum 4 and constituting the bottom thereof is a vine-collecting member or table 23 preferably composed of sheet metal and having side walls 24 and a centralv longitudinally extending vine-receiving opening or slot 25 provided with an enlarged flaring entrance opening or mouth 26, the member or table 23, which has longitudinal grooves or channels 27, being provided marginally around the vine-receiving opening 25 and its entrance opening 26 with sharpened cutting edges or blades 2S, simil-ai' sharpened blades 29 being formed at thc forward ends of the walls 211, the front ends of which aro downwardly and forwardly curved as seen more clearly at 29 in Fig. 4. Journalcd on thc table 23 at the roar end of the slot 25 is a roller 30, thc purpose of which will hereinafter appear, while extended between and sus tainedby the sides 24 is a bar or member 3.

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equipped with teeth 32 designed to cooperate path the arms14 during the threshing operalon.

Arranged iu the casing'l for travel on rollers 33, 34, is an upwardly and rearwardly inclined conveying member or table 35 in the form of an endless belt equipped with relatlvely spaced transversely extending slats 36 and having its lower forward end disposed at the rear end of and to receive material from the collecting member or table. 23, to the rear of which there is attached a guard-member or shield 37 which overlies the roller 33 and directsmaterial onto the forward end of the conveyer, there being `lined-upon one end of the shaft or roller 34 a gear 38 in mesh witha second gear 39 xedupon a stubshait which also carries a sprocket 4() connected by a sprocket chain 41 with a sprocket 42 fixed upon the cylinder shaft 16, the' chain 41 being i also arranged for Atravel u on a gear 4.3 fixed upon and for driving the s aft 44 of a blower ,fan '45 arranged in the main casing and housed within a lan casing 46. The fan casing has. a downwardly and rearwardly inclined mouth 47 disposed for directing a current of air rearwardly beneath the lowermost of a series of vertically spaced screens 48, 49, 50, arranged at a downward and rearward inclination in the casing 1, while beneath the fan there is provided in the casing 1 a downwardly and transversely inclined chute 51 by which material is' discharged into a bag or other receptacle not shown which may be suspended at' the mouth of the chute.

Fixed on that end of the shaft 34 remote from the gear 38 is a belt pulley 52 connected by a belt 53 with a pulley 54 ixed upon the drive shaft 55 of'a short, upwardly and rearwardly inclined skeleton conveyer 56 dis posed for travel at its rear end on an idle roller or shaft 57 lextended transversely of the casing -1, the conveyer 56 being composed of a series of. relatively spaced slats presenting openings 58 through which the seedmay escape Jfrom the conveyer onto the uppermost screen 48, it being noted in this connection that the system of gearing is such that the conveyors 35 and 56 Will be driven in the direction indicated by the arrows in Fig. 4, and furthermore that the conveyers and the fan 45 are driven i'rorn the shaft of the threshing cylinder 13 which in turn is driven directly from one of the ground wheels.

Journaled on the casing 1 at the rear end of the 'table 23 which travels in a horizontal plane and close to the ground surface is a pair of idle 'rollers 59 adapted for travel on the ground surface to maintain the table 23 at a uniformly spaced distance therefrom while mounted on the sides of the casing 1 are guides 60 that will admit of vertical movement of the rear ends of the side portions or arms of the draft trame 6.

InV practice, as the machine advances over the ground the pea or bean vines enter the guide opening or slot 25 and are severedvunder the action of the cutting .edges 28, whereswept by the vines onto the conveyer 35and delivered therefrom to the conveyer 56;," As the material passes onto the last-named obnveyer'the vines and other refuse are deliv-v ered thereby onto the ground in rear of the machine, while theseed fall through the openings 58 onto the uppermost screenv 48 and thence downwardthrough the screens 49 and 50 Vto the bottom-"of casing 1 from which it passes into the chute 51 for delivery into the bags or other receptacles, it being understood that the screens which grow gradually finer, serve to separate the trash from the seed, while any trash which may pass with the latter through the lowermost and ,finest screen 50 will be discharged in rear of the machine under the action of a current of air from the fan 45.

It is to be observed rthat as the material passes onto the table 23, briers or other heavy material which maybe mixed with the vines will be directed beneath the table by the action of roller 30, and furthermore that as the machine travels over the ground the table will be maintained in properly spaced relation to the ground surface by means Iofthe support-- ing members or rollers 59. When it is` desired to throw the parts of the mechanism out of action the lever 22 is manipulated for moving the clutch member 2O out'of engagement with the clutch 21, thereby stopping the operation of cylinder 13 and ofthe coneff IDG

veyers and fan which are in belt connection.

with and driven by said cylinder, while the lever 9 may be operated for raising and lowering the forward end of the machine to ae#` cord with surface irregularities, it being apparent that when the lever is moved for rais? ing the rear end of the draft frame 6, the latter will, in turning on its pivot 5 and owing to the forward end of the tongue 7 bein sus- IFI) tained by the neck yokelift the forwar end of the machine from the ground.

It is to be particularly noted are harvested, threshed and delivered in a that in. the" operation of the machine the peas and beans I" comparatively clean condition -into the sacks or other receptacles.

In rig. e there 1S illustrated a. Slightly -modiied form ofithe collecting member or` table 23, which in this instance is provided with a pair of entrance openings ork slots 25, as distinguished from the form of the device above describei'l, which has biit one entrance opening, the moditied loim being designed lor harvesting doable rows ol peas or beans.

produce a simple device admirabl)V adapted for the attainment of the ends in view, it being understood that in attaining' these ends minor changes in the details herein set t'orth may he resorted to without departingr from the spirit of the. invention.

Havingg` thus fully described om' invention, what we claim as new is:

1. In a pea and bean harvesterv :i table having forwardl)Y divergine' blades adapted for Cuttingr the vines and direei my; there# onto the table, threshing mechanism arranged to act on th`e vines and feed them rearwardly on the table, conveying' mechanism l'or (,iai'rving' thevines to and delivering,y them at the rear of the machine, and means for separating' the. threshed seed from the vines prior to discharge of the latter.

2. In a pea and bean harvester, a table provided with a longitudinal, outwardly flaring' entrance opening: and havin; cutting' knives arranged at opposite sides ot said openiingr for cutting the vines and directing` them onto the table, arotarxr thresliingdi'iiin arranged above thc latter and adapted to thresh the material and leed the saine rearwardly on the' table, conveyers disposed [or receiving the material t'roni the tabler and discharging the same at the rear end oi 'the nachine, and mechanism tor separatin;r the threshed seed from the v i material prior to discharge of the latter. From the. loreg'omg it is apparent that l 23. 'ln a pea and bean harvester, a collecting table. having cutting; knives adapted to'cut the vines, a` rotaryv threshing drum arranged above the tableA and having beater arms fori threshing' the material and feeding the saine rearwardly on the table, a conveyor belt 0perable for carryingr the material from the table rearwardly in the machine, a. second belt adapted to receive the inatei'ial from the first named belt and discharge the saine at the. roar oi' the machine, said second belt being provided with openings through which the seei'l'i'all, a` system ol screens arranged beneath the second belt for separating and cleaning tho seed, and means for operatingr all of said parts.

[n testimony whereof, Vl alx my signature iii presence of two witnesses.

' ERNEST TUARP \'Viti'iesses:

' iniLii M. Pizicsco'rr, Jil.,

Lian SGImY.

1n testimonywhereof, I allix my sign tiii'e iii presence ol" two witnesses.

BEAlH THARP, Jia. Witnesses:

J Wim Pow nim, B. Invixo SHAW.

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